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Oklahoma State University
9-8-1, 4-2-1
West Virginia
12-2-2, 5-0-1
| Team | 1 | 2 | OT 1 | OT 2 | Final F |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma State | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| West Virginia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Cowgirls Fall To No. 8 West Virginia In Double Overtime
October 24, 2014 | Cowgirl Soccer
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – In a battle of the two teams atop the Big 12 Conference standings, eighth-ranked West Virginia got a golden goal in the 103rd minute Friday night to hand Oklahoma State a 2-1 loss in double overtime at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium.
The loss snapped the Cowgirls' three-game winning streak as they fell to 9-8-1 overall and 4-2-1 in conference play. WVU ran its unbeaten streak to 13, and the Mountaineers are now 12-2-2 and 5-0-1 in the league.
OSU goalie Rosa Medina finished with 11 saves, two shy of her career high, but she couldn't quite make the stop on Kailey Utley's blast from the top of the 18-yard box as it found the far post for the game winner.
“It's tough; (West Virginia) is a good team, and I thought we just played okay – we didn't play our best,” said OSU head coach Colin Carmichael. “When you go on the road, the chances you get, you've got to be clinical, and we were not. We had a couple of good looks that we need to finish, and on the other end you get punished for mistakes.
“It was a pretty close game. (WVU) had the better of the play, but chances-wise it was relatively close and could have gone either way. But against a good team on the road, they'll punish you for your mistakes and you've got to capitalize on theirs – that was the difference in the game.”
The game was statistically even after the opening half and went into intermission scoreless. Both teams had eight shots, two each on goal, and both teams also had shots that deflected off the crossbar.
The Cowgirls would finally break the scoreless streak at the 78:07 mark when leading scorer Allie Stephenson delivered a low shot to the near post from 12-yards out for a 1-0 OSU lead. The goal was Stephenson's sixth of the season.
The lead was short-lived, however, as just 49 seconds later, Utley netted the first of her two goals in the match. After a header by Cari Price into the box, Utley sent a shot past Medina to the far post for the equalizer.
“It's very tough, but it happens in soccer a lot – you're most vulnerable to being scored on after you've just scored,” said Carmichael of WVU's quick equalizer. “You yell at your kids and try to keep them up and going. But credit to West Virginia – they served a dangerous ball and their kid nipped in front of one of our backs and scored. From our standpoint, we need to have better concentration than that.”
With the score knotted at 1-1, Medina rose to the occasion down the stretch, making four saves over the final 7:15 of regulation, including a diving stop of a shot by Kate Schwindel with just three ticks left on the clock.
In the first overtime, OSU collected shots by Krissi Killion and Madison Mercado, but both were wide of the mark, while Medina tallied two more saves on five shots by the Mountaineers.
The second extra period saw Medina notch her final save of the night on a chance by Amandine Pierre-Louis, but just 22 seconds later, Utley set off a WVU celebration when her shot glanced off the hands of a diving Medina and into the corner of the net.
“(Medina is) upset because she felt like she should have saved that one and she probably should've, but what I told her was without her making four or five big plays we wouldn't have been in overtime,” Carmichael said. “There's no blame attached to Rosa; she had a very good night.”
OSU concludes the regular season Friday night when the Cowgirls travel to Austin, Texas, to take on Texas.
Team Stats
Stephenson, Allie (6)
beat GK to near corner from 8-out
78:07
Utley, Kailey (3)
Assisted By: Price, Cari
header into box, 16 shot near far post i
78:56
Utley, Kailey (4)
blast from PK line, beat goalie to far r
102:58
